While I find the show in question to be completely distasteful and exploitative, am I wrong to feel little sympathy towards individuals who end up in such situations? (I suspect so, at least partially.) I suspect my feelings may come from a need to separate myself from these people.

Within myself I seem to find a complete lack of harmony between my sexual feelings towards children (and my own ugly desire for sexual contact with them) and an overwhelming desire to protect them from harm (including molestation). This tends to to manifest itself in a sense of self-loathing that I project onto child molesters - the sort who get themselves caught up in such traps.

This seems to result in the strange situation where I witness non-paedophiles being more forgiving of child molesters than I can bring myself to be.

This is me thinking aloud on a point you didn't even intend to raise.